Screw Work, Lets Play will show readers why they will have far greater success, happiness and wealth from playing all day. You're tired of being stuck between boring work that pays and fun stuff that doesn't. You want to be able to do whatever is most fun and exciting for you from day to day, to learn new stuff, to be creative, to express yourself and to do something you actually care about. You want to get paid simply for being you. Screw Work, Lets Play, will show readers why the most successful people in the world do exactly that, just think, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet all became billionaires by having fun, and they can too starting right now.

This book will help readers discover what they enjoy the most and what playing all day looks like for them. It gives life changing strategies to transform their working lives and reveals the huge variety of ways to get paid and play, not only ensuring more fun, but helping them to increase the amount of money they make.

Written by a career maverick who escaped corporate life, Screw Work Let's Play is your blueprint to create a work-life full of fun, freedom and creativity; something more like play than work.

Packed full of stories from people who turned their passion into their living - or even a million pound business - you'll discover10 secrets to transform your working life, starting today.

Discover life-changing ideas and practical plans including: How to win your first playcheque - without quitting your current job.

How to beat the doubts and internal blocks that hold you back.

How you can play and get rich - even in a recession.

Whether you want to start a business, create an ideal job, write a book, or change the world, there's no need to suffer unfulfilling work any more.

Unlock exclusive extras at www.screwworkletsplay.com

John Williams is a careers and business advisor for people who want something more interesting and creative than a job. He's had a high-flying corporate job as a Senior Managing Consultant at Deloittes and his own successful business as an independent consultant to the BBC, Siemens and other blue chip companies. John is an accredited coach with an Advanced Diploma with Distinction from the Coaching Academy. He also has 7 years' additional professional development in person-centred counselling and humanistic psychotherapy

"A compelling 10-step escape from corporate life that could see a summer of resignation letters."

Fleur Britten, Sunday Times Style Magazine

About this book

p. xii

Acknowledgements

p. xvii

Join the play revolution

p. 1

Join the revolution

p. 4

It pays to have fun

p. 5

Get the autonomy you crave

p. 8

The world will be your office

p. 9

From worker to player

p. 11

Scrap your career plan

p. 16

My story: 'I never want another job for the rest of my life'

p. 18

How to work out what you really really want

p. 23

Start from the right place

p. 24

Introducing your secret weapon: your playbook

p. 26

'Just one more thing ...', or what Columbo can teach you about discovering what you really want

p. 27

Stop trying to work out what to do with the rest of your life

p. 29

Need a little more inspiration?

p. 31

Too many things to do to fit into one year?

p. 33

Welcome to the universe(s)

p. 36

Here's the good news: you can have what you really want

p. 38

Introducing Play Wednesday

p. 40

Put it into play

p. 42

How to choose what to do next

p. 44

The happiness equation

p. 47

Find your moment

p. 48

How to get into flow - an introduction to Wealth Dynamics

p. 49

Feeling uncomfortable?

p. 55

Talents, skills and passions

p. 56

The great love-versus-money balancing act

p. 57

How to avoid being a starving artist (or actor or musician or poet or novelist...)

p. 60

How to choose what to do next

p. 62

Put it into play

p. 66

How to get started right now

p. 68

The problem with goals

p. 71

The problem with thinking

p. 73

Pick a play project

p. 74

How to choose your project

p. 75

Think big, start small

p. 79

Kick off your play project

p. 82

The benefits of being in play

p. 84

Put it into play

p. 87

How to guarantee your success

p. 88

Welcome to the roller-coaster

p. 89

Introducing your nemesis

p. 91

Build your support team

p. 95

Feeling scared yet?

p. 98

How to be indestructible

p. 100

Stop asking for permission

p. 102

Take some tips from the world's best expert on your success

p. 103

How to cheat

p. 104

Take The Millionaire Test to stay on track

p. 105

How to make progress when you've got no time and no energy

p. 107

Manage your overwhelm, not your time

p. 109

How to manage your brilliant ideas

p. 110

How to be a creative genius

p. 111

The power of 'creative idling'

p. 113

Put it into play

p. 115

How to play for profit... and purpose

p. 116

Let's go problem hunting

p. 121

Want to change the world?

p. 127

Which problem to solve?

p. 127

Put it into play

p. 129

How to play the fame game and win

p. 130

Step one: Pimp your project

p. 135

Step two: Choose your channel of communication

p. 140

Step three: Who are your kind of people?

p. 147

Step four: Start the conversation

p. 149

Step five: The art of seduction, or how to turn your fans into customers

p. 151

And finally, a note about coping with controversy

p. 153

Put it into play

p. 154

How to create an irresistible offer

p. 155

Providing a service

p. 158

How to make money in your sleep - or the wonders of passive income

p. 161

Information products, the new way to sell your expertise

p. 162

Affiliate marketing - or how to sell a product without having to make it